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A medical memoir focusing on one emergency room doctor's shift in an urban ER follows the experiences of real patients and focuses on the story of a forty-three-year-old woman who arrives in sudden cardiac arrest and the challenges it presents for physicians.
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Non Fiction That Reads Like Fiction
OBD Memoir March - ADULT
OBD Notable Books 2020 - New York Times Book Review
OBD Memoir March - ADULT
OBD Notable Books 2020 - New York Times Book Review
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"A series of connected personal stories drawn from the author's life and work as an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others"--
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met...
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"Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
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"June Hudson grew up in Grace Valley, the daughter of the town doctor. Leaving only to get her medical training, she returned home and followed in her father's footsteps. Some might say she chose the easy, comfortable route ... but June knows better"--Page [4] of cover.
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In the peaceful community of Grace Valley, California, folks look out for one another like family. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secret - but Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep a humdinger. Visits from her secret lover, undercover DEA agent Jim Post, are as clandestine as they are passionate. They somehow fit with her demanding schedule as the town's doctor. But how can a secret lover compete with a flesh-and-blood heartthrob from her...
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Weaving together in-depth interviews with doctors, their diaries, and notes, this page-turning account follows the medical students who received their degrees early to help treat thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients in New York City during the height of the pandemic.
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Late one hot summer night, a beautiful young actress named Eden Hale -- only hours removed from breast-augmentation surgery, and writhing in pain -- stumbles to the telephone and dials 911. Within minutes, an ambulance rushes her to San Francisco's Mercy Hospital. But by the time she arrives, she is dying, fast, of a mysterious, unrecognizable condition.
Dr. Carroll Monks, the ER physician on duty, races to sort through her baffling
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"When Frank Huyler was just starting out in the medical profession in the late 1990s, he published a collection of medical vignettes detailing his encounters in the highly charged world of an emergency room. The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic, praised for Huyler's poetic prose and his ability to probe beneath the surface of his patient encounters-revealing the hard truths of life in the medical field. Now, over twenty years later, Huyler...
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"Executive producer Dick Wolf delivers the latest installment of the compelling Chicago franchise, an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors, nurses, and staff who hold it together. Crossing paths with familiar faces from Chicago P.D. and Chicago Fire, this third team of Chicago heroes take on cases inspired by topical events while forging fiery relationships in the...
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"This deluxe 4-disc set wheels in the pilot plus 24 first-year episodes and is also packed with extras that propel you even deeper into the experience of one of the most impactful dramatic series in TV history. The gurneys are rolling. The crash carts are ready. A split second can mean life or death. And you are there with Green (Anthony Edwards), Ross (George Clooney), Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), Carter (Noah Wyle), Hathaway (Julianna Margulies)...
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"So much has happened in fourteen seasons, so many people have come and gone, but the chaos of saving lives and the dedication of the people who make County General run remain. In this season, personal tragedies threaten, and sometimes strengthen, relationships among the staff. And the patients bring their own compelling stories. A boy genius diagnoses his mysterious illness, a cancer-ridden prison doctor is haunted by the men he put to death, a woman...
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"A busload of fume-sickened school kids, a gunman whose shooting spree claimed nineteen victims, a guy in an opossum outfit who bit a man dressed as a kangaroo -- they and so many others all converge at the ER. Season seven includes Abby's reunion with her mother, a turbulent woman who suffers from bipolar disorder. Also making the rounds, Carter returns from detox, Abby goes back to square one in med training, Benton struggles to emerge from Romano's...
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The award-winning series explored the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. In its final season, these medical professionals remain determined to save lives in a place where nothing is taken for granted and nothing is certain, nothing except that another desperate person will be rushed through the emergency room doors in the next moment in...
17) Such dark things
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Dr. Corinne Cabot is a successful ER physician who lives in a charming house in the suburbs of Chicago and is married to a handsome husband. But appearances can be deceiving-and what no one can see is Corinne's dark past. Troubling gaps in her memory mean she recalls little about a haunting event in her life years ago that changed everything. She remembers only being in the house the night two people were found murdered. Her father was there, too....
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"County Hospital has its rules. Doug Ross has his. For years, the dedicated pediatrician has pushed the limits. But now he goes too far and it leads to his resignation. The door swings both ways at the ER : eager med studen Lucy Knight arrives. Her mentor for her first rotation is Carter, who knows well the pitfalls of being a student, but perhaps isn't so adept a teacher. Also, Benton has a day-in, day-out patient on his hands when he learns his...
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"New hopefuls, Army Reservist Michael Gallant and brash Gregory Pratt, arrive to face the challenges of Trauma One life. A familiar face, Dr. Susan Lewis, returns. Benton weighs career and family. Malucci crosses the line once too often, Chen defies demotion, and Greene fights what could be his last battle, leaving a void at the group's heart. His leadership may never be replaced but someone must step into the breach. That someone is the doctor who...
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"Heal 'em and wheel 'em as the fourth season unfolds. A new face enters the mix at Chicago's County General: Dr. Elizabeth Corday comes across the pond from England to work as a surgical fellow. And there are plenty of new challenges ranging from the personal, as Greene tries to patch things up with his father in San Diego, to the professional as Ross puts his career on the line to save the life of a seven-month-old baby boy, from the romantic as...
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